Lord Mandelson takes himself terribly seriously. It seems most of the rest of the world does not. Certainly it is recognised that he can be useful, and destructive. But what he sees himself as is much more than that. Unfortunately Mr Osborne has acted unthinkingly to display what he saw Mandelson as when he met him in the summer at a friend's - present, but not on any kind of terms of privacy or within the inviolable discretions of friendship.
The aggression displayed over Osborne's chatting about a gossipy lunch is a measure of the difference in status awarded to Mandelson by Mr Osborne and the status Mandelson had awarded himself.
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L said that the return of Mandelson to British politics was akin to blocking up the sewage system with concrete.
Just so.
The departure from Brussels was at unprecedented speed. Mandelson was scooped out of the EU and dumped into the House of Lords in virtually no time.
That he returned to save Gordon may or may not be the case. Why did he have to leave so fast?
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